Reposted by Ann MrozBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good. 636371486793
Reposted by Ann MrozJon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Well this has certainly got people talking on here and on LinkedIn today! 154
Reposted by Ann MrozFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Gates in an interview with the @financialtimes.com doesn’t hold back about Musk’s USAID cuts: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” www.ft.com/content/bdd9...ft.comBill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cutsBillionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045 315575
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025‘In 2011, I was a junior official working on SEND reforms, including introducing EHCPs. Because these included a health element, we had to present the idea to Department of Health officials. They laughed at us, and that meeting is seared into my memory’ schoolsweek.co.uk/ditching-ehc...schoolsweek.co.ukHow ditching EHCPs could mean SEND is better fundedThe approach and the incentives that flow from it are ruinous. Here's what we should do instead 000
Reposted by Ann MrozTom Rees @tomreesjournalist.bsky.social · 09/05/2025ONS confirms our exclusive story that Ian Diamond has resigned as head of the national statistics body! It came after mounting pressures over the ONS's handling of a collapse in response rates to key household surveys. It had made its unemployment and employment figures useless 058
Reposted by Ann MrozMark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Anyone who is interested in understanding the judgment the Supreme Court will be delivering today in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers will no doubt find @michaelpforan.bsky.social's excellent overview of the legal issues very useful. knowingius.org/p/sex-in-the...knowingius.orgSex in the Supreme CourtA Brief Overview 53826
Reposted by Ann MrozDaisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I am reading the new book by the Facebook / Meta whistleblower - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Interesting bit where she says that the big tech bosses all push their products on other people's kids but refuse to let their own kids use them. 33712
Reposted by Ann MrozWilliam Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This is how we were. You see kids today and there’s a reserve in them that’s new. 121
Reposted by Ann MrozThe Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 10/04/2025🚨NEW: There has been a big spike in schools using funding for disadvantaged pupils to plug budget holes. Our new research reveals that more cash-strapped schools are cutting back on staff, trips and equipment than in 2024⤵️ 🧵 11513
Reposted by Ann MrozAudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Good advice for universities from Akua Reindorf KC www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/many...timeshighereducation.comMany UK universities’ trans inclusion policies contravene equality lawRecent cases brought by gender-critical employees show that going beyond the law can easily turn into stepping outside the law, says Akua Reindorf 0103
Reposted by Ann MrozDr Kathryn Webb @drkathrynwebb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025The Observer editorial on @sullivan-review.bsky.social: "A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Observer view on gender data: failure to accurately record biological sex harms us all | Observer editorialA report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures 12912
Reposted by Ann MrozNatasha Porter OBE @natashaporter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025A few bits here are just bonkers. Firstly the prison population issues are absolutely not because of increases in exclusion. Secondly it is weird to suggest that because there are links between the cohort excluded from school and those committing serious violence we should stop exclusions. 063
Reposted by Ann MrozJohn Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Fine tribute to John Prescott from Tony Blair institute.global/insights/new... 05312
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Yes, and just more interesting stuff. I am finding it a bit boring 010
Reposted by Ann MrozJonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Cuts to the AMSP programme for Further Maths. 2 approved Maths schools on pause. Maths courses being shut at universities around the country. It’s not been a great few days for an AI powerhouse…… 155
Reposted by Ann MrozWarwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Exclusive: Academy trust which has generated income of more than £12m from phonics product starts “investigation into its tax status” www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/173356/... Wandle Learning Trust reveals it should have been registered for VAT, in latest accounts. 347
Reposted by Ann MrozJohnny Rich @johnnyrich.com · 28/01/2025This is huge: a Russell Group uni making such severe cuts shows the extent of the crisis in HE funding. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobsVice-chancellor Wendy Larner says 2149
Reposted by Ann MrozTes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 28/01/2025‘I agree that phones have no place in the classroom. It is entirely right that schools take firm action to stop their use, and I know that is what the vast majority of schools already do’: Bridget Phillipson rejects Tory plans to legislate against mobile phonestes.comPhillipson dismisses Conservative call for school phone ban lawEducation secretary calls the proposals a ‘headline-grabbing gimmick’ 121
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Even when simple I get an accountant to do it. I am notoriously awful with forms and it alleviates a lot of pain 000
Reposted by Ann MrozSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/01/2025This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future". We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do. 881278374
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025This is Bruce. He’s just had his coat brushed and is looking very handsome 6934
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Ha, I thought exactly the same. The resemblance was uncanny 010
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024So much wonderful, tasty cheese at the Courtyard Dairy in Settle 050
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024‘Just think what we could achieve if pupils had a seamless curriculum that taught them knowledge and skills in a carefully planned sequence, right through from 3-19’ www.tes.com/magazine/lea...tes.comWhat if...our system was set up as all-through provision?As part of our ‘What if...’ series, Claire Heald argues there would be multiple academic, pastoral and staffing benefits if the system was set up as an all-through model 010
Reposted by Ann MrozSF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I can never understand why children's books get left out of "great book" lists. The books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one. They are books for EVERYONE - and if you exclude them, you miss the most important books of all! 3527313683
Reposted by Ann MrozCaroline Barlow @carolinebarlow.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Well done @branwenjeffreys and @BBCBreakfast for profiling the work of Dame Christine Gilbert showing how information about and evaluation of schools is not and should not be driven by Ofsted. #beyondofsted #gilbertreview www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFirst look at app-style reports to help parents compare schoolsLocal projects are under way to create school report cards that could inform Ofsted's national changes. 034
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Who on here remembers Twizzle, with his extendable arms and legs? How were small children of the 1960s not terrified by him? 010
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 12/09/2024Beautiful sky here in North London before the rain comes down 021
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 12/09/2024The pics from this first-ever private spacewalk are amazing. It’s an incredible experience but I would find it terrifying. Am I just a big wuss? news.sky.com/video/share-...news.sky.comPictures from the first-ever private spacewalkBillionaire Jared Isaacman has become the first person to complete a private spacewalk. 000
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 06/09/2024Mumsnet predictably furious about the new term-time holiday fines but this poster makes a good case 030
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 06/09/2024This is very good from Jon Coles schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-refor...schoolsweek.co.ukThese Ofsted reforms won't solve our accountability problemsSuperficial changes could lead to untintended consequences while the real issues persist, warns Sir Jon Coles 152
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 03/09/2024Name change is a powerful statement about the trust’s future, says CEO Becks Boomer-Clark www.tes.com/magazine/new...tes.comMajor MAT changes name to become Lift SchoolsCEO Becks Boomer-Clark, says the former Academies Enterprise Trust’s name change is a ‘powerful statement’ about its future 020
Ann Mroz @annmroz.bsky.social · 03/09/2024I found this part of the review astonishing – ‘the role of Ofsted’s governing board was “curiously limited”, highlighting that the chief inspector (or HCMI) was not “wholly accountable” to the board and that it has no control over the watchdog’s budget’ www.tes.com/magazine/new...tes.comOfsted target drove down quality of inspectionsDame Christine Gilbert’s independent review of Ofsted’s actions following the death of Ruth Perry suggests the inspectorate prioritised volume over quality 020